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SAMUEL P. SNE-an.: QELLOUIsviLLs, KeNTUCKY.'

.Letters Patcht'No. 91,3715, dated @me '5,j 186% The Siahedule referred to in these Letters Patent and. making past-'o' the same.

all whom it may conegfn l 3e it known that I, SAMUEL P. SNEAD, of the'city Louisville, in the county of Jefferson, in the State Kentucky, have invented a new and improved Mode Fire-Proofing the Ceilings-'of Houses, and thereby venting fire, in case'gf a coniagration, from passf.,

lctingire-proo floors, the under sides of said p1ater.

being .farmed inte ps1-lele. in enldingam. atheneum:

ments used in-beautiifying ceilings, and the upper side -being strengthened by ribs b, te resist the impact of falling masses of brisklworlf: or other heavy material.

It is intended that the space between the beams and abovethe plates shalll be filled with concrete, forvqtheer purpose of increasing the safety and deadening sound.

Having thus described my inventin What I claim as new, and desire to secure byQLet-- s`rr4 ters Pat-ent, is-

The orn alnented plates B, supported upon the dan ges ofthe beams A, when provided with the arched ribs b,

constructed as described, ,for che purpose specitiedf" SAML. P. SNEAD Witnesses:

Jas. QBRYAN, E. Sanna. 

